Pioneers of Cybersquatting: John Zuccarini
A few days ago John Zuccarini completed serving his jail sentence. According to the FBI, Zuccarini operated over 5,500 copycat Web sites. October 2001 was when he was first charged of typosquatting. Once a Web surfer inadventantly got to one his sites, they were hit with a virtually unstoppable flood of pop-up windows. Zuccarini’s prosecution was the first under the then-new Truth in Domain Names Act. On December of 2003 he pleaded guilty, and on February 2004 was subsequently sentenced to 2.5 years in prison.
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